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Mussolini rises to power
Mussolini started as the prime minister and quickly became the face of the National Facist Party -
Stalin rises to power
After Lenin died, Stalin out-smarted his opponents and rose to power, he ruled by using terror and it's estimated that he killed 25 million people during his reign. -
starting point of the war
Japan invades Manchuria -
Hitler rises to power
Adolf Hitler agrees to a coalition with conservatives. After months of negotiations, the president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, will appoint Hitler chancellor of Germany in a government seemingly dominated by conservatives on January 30, 1933. -
Italy's conquest of Ethiopia
Ethiopia and the italina somaliland had an incident and Mussolini saw his oppuritunty and invaded ethiopia -
Spanish Civil War
Military revolted against the republican government -
Treaty of cooperation
Italy and germany sign the treaty -
Rome-berlin axis formed
The agreement was formed between italy and germany, and later it included japan -
Annexing of Austria
Germany annexed Austria for the third Reich -
Munich agreement
Great britain, france, germany, and italy sign to make the czechoslovak republic to cede the sudentenland -
Borders are guarenteed
GB and france decide to guarentee the border integrity of the polish state -
albania annexed
Italy annexes Albania -
Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact
Just before the war started, nazi germany and the soviet union shocked the world by signing a nonaggression pact -
poland attack
The germans invaded poland and marked the beginning of world war 2 -
War on Germany
After Germany attacked Poland, GB and France had to honor their guarentee and both countries declared war on germany -
warsaw surrenders
Polish gov is forced into exile in Romania, poland is then divided between germany and the soviet union -
Germany invades
Germany invades norway and denmark, denmark wants to avoid any war and surrenders on the day of the attack. Norway surrenders on june 9th -
Italy joins the war
Southern france is invaded by italy -
battle of britain
The germans attacked london on september 7th and it was very sucessful and caused a lot of damage -
Triparite Pact
Italy germany and japan sign the pact -
Tojo's rise to power
He had a very sucessful extensive militray career before he bcame prime minister in 1941 -
Pearl Harbor
Surprise military attack by the Japanese against the united states naval base at pearl harbor -
Battle of Midway
Naval battle in the pacific theatre, inflicted a lot of damage on the japanese fleet -
battle of stalingrad
Nazi germany and its allies fought the soviet union for control of stlingrad -
D-day
Largest sea borne invasion in history, led to the liberation of france from nazi control -
Battle of the bulge
Major German offensive campaign against belgium france and luxemborg -
death of roosevelt
He passed from a cerebral hemorrhage -
V-E Day
Victory in europe day, celebrated to mark the formal acceptance by the allies of world war 2, ending world war 2 in europe -
dropping of the atomic bombs
Americans dropped a five-ton bomb over hiroshima, killing 80,000 people and made four square miles of the city ruins. Three days later another bomb was dropped by the americans on Nagasaki killing 40,000 people. These bombs caused Japan to surrender -
V-J day
Victory over japan day, celebrating the day japan surrendered
